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How a Bad Date Helped Me Have Better Boundaries

How a Bad Date Helped Me Have Better Boundaries

Being polite isn’t a good reason for poor boundaries

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Crystal Jackson
Jan 26, 2021
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Being polite isn’t a good reason for poor boundaries

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In the classic responses of Fight, Flight, or Freeze, I tend toward Freeze. While I’m capable of fighting and unlikely to take flight, I seem to react with shock when encountering the ugly side of human nature. I’m a bit of a realist, so it’s not that I don’t know ther…

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